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NEW DELHI: Pained by the treatment meted out to teachers in the country, Supreme Court has said mere public recital of “guru brahma, guru vishnu, guru devo maheswarah” is meaningless if those who shape future generations are paid a pittance.Criticising Gujarat government for paying contractual assistant professors Rs 30,000 a month despite them performing work…

NEW DELHI: After focusing for decades on ensuring fair trial to accused persons and their unfettered right to appeal against conviction, Supreme Court in a significant interpretation of criminal law has conferred similar rights on victims of crime, and even their legal heirs, to challenge acquittals.Till now, in the case of acquittal of an accused…

KOLKATA: Calcutta high court has commuted the death sentence of a 34-year-old woman and her 37-year-old boyfriend, convicted of killing her one-and-a-half-year-old son in 2016, observing that their crime did not fall under the category of “rarest of rare”. On Thursday, the court sentenced them to life imprisonment without remission for 40 years, reports Srishti…

NEW DELHI: An investigation by ED, assisted by the ministry of external affairs (MEA) and its foreign missions and embassies, has unearthed a massive NRI admission racket, in which private medical colleges were found offering admissions on about 18,000 reserved MBBS UG and PG seats under the quota by using forged documents of non-resident Indians.India’s…

Crash site (left), Harjinder Singh (ANI) Over 2.2 million people have signed an online petition urging Florida governor Ron DeSantis to consider leniency for Harjinder Singh, a 28-year-old Indian origin man facing vehicular homicide charges in the US after a fatal crash earlier this month, reported the New York Post.Singh, who entered the US illegally…

NEW DELHI: India does not see space only as a field of research but as the future of tomorrow’s economy, security, energy and humanity, and cannot afford to stay behind in the journey, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday.“We’re steadily advancing beyond the earth’s surface into new frontiers of space. We’ve already marked our…

PATNA: RJD‘s Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday alleged that EC’s credibility had been largely eroded due to controversies surrounding the SIR of electoral rolls in Bihar. “At each booth, the names of at least 50 living electors have been deleted on grounds that they are dead. We have proof,” Tejashwi told reporters in Araria during INDIA…

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, in a rare English-language interview with US network NBC, has defended Moscow’s actions in Ukraine, denying that Russian forces have targeted civilians and accusing the West of obstructing peace.Speaking on Meet the Press in a pre-taped remote interview aired Sunday, Lavrov refused to label Russia’s military actions as an “invasion”…

The water level of the Tawi river rises after heavy rainfall, in Jammu. JAMMU: Several parts of Jammu division witnessed flash flood-like situations due to continuous heavy rainfall, which even damaged a bridge on the Jammu-Pathankot NH. Jammu city recorded a precipitation of 190.4mm in a 24-hour period, marking its second-highest single-day rainfall in Aug…

The findings are based on a detailed survey of 2,426 on-board passengers across 96 selected trains, conducted by audit offices from 16 zones. NEW DELHI: In a telling indicator of the persistent cleanliness issues on long-distance trains — from choked toilets and unclean washbasins to lack of water and dirty vestibule areas — an audit…